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Un tiempo espléndido

2021

Gastronomic experience and video
Candy box:
Six sweets:
  • Walnut and smoked cinnamon
  • Black tea, bergamot
  • Yuzu, lemon verbena, rose and calendula
  • Rhubarb, tarragon, spirulina
  • Prickly pear and chilli
  • Star anise and parsnip
Cardboard box wrapped in silk scarves dyed with plants from the Botanical Garden

Video
4K video, 16:9


Through a box of sweets, Un tiempo espléndido contrasts the dualistic and anthropocentric worldview of modernity—which places nature outside the human—with cultural and symbolic elements that reveal different societies’ fascination with the vegetal world.

The project takes the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia as its starting point: a space that brings together multiple landscapes within the intimacy of a garden while also articulating a network of activities devoted to the study, conservation, dissemination, and sustainable use of biodiversity. A place for contemplation and knowledge.

The work began with a series of attentive walks through the garden, understood as a way of approaching and connecting with the surrounding environment. During these walks, plants of gastronomic and sensory interest were documented, together with references and symbols associated with the vegetal world.

Based on these observations, six sweets were designed, drawing both on subjective impressions of the garden and on research into different imaginaries associated with plants. The sweets are presented in a recycled cardboard box wrapped in linen and silk fabrics dyed with plant-based substances and scented with lemon verbena.

The experience was presented on September 22, 2021, as part of a workshop at the Navarra Gastro Summit in Pamplona. The workshop combined a discussion on sensory experience and ecological art practices from a gastronomic perspective with a tasting of the sweets. During the tasting, the different chapters of the artistic video inspired by each sweet were screened, creating an immersive experience around the garden, its species, and their associated imaginaries.




Carles Tarrassó









Gastronomic experience
Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia, summer 2021
Presented at Museum of the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 22.09.2021






A botanical garden
in a box of sweets





Credits:Original idea and text: Carles Tarrassó
“Silent” poem: Elena Krause Suárez
Video production and direction: Carles Tarrassó
Photography and video editing: David Luis Pérez Magan
Photographs: Cristóbal Neira
Logistics assistance: Maria Guerrero Oliver
Box: Cartró Art
Tutoring: Jaime Güemes, Director of the Botanical Garden
Acknowledgements: Idoya Fernández, director of Navarra Gastro Summit


















































Study of  edible varieties at the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia

















Full video



















Hubo un tiempo espléndido
en el que escuchaba
el dulce murmullo de las flores.

Se desplegaba la vida,
y entre la música de la acequia borboteante,
también te escuchaba.

Pero una mañana de octubre,
sobre el espíritu de la campiña
cayó una mudez de broza.

Un otoño que, implacable
se llevaba del aire los trinos,
los cantos, los gorjeos,
dejándonos un sueño miserable
de taciturno desafecto.


Elena Krause



















Candy boxes presented at the Navara Gastro Summit